Pail.



PATEINTED AUG. 20, 1907" J. W. NICHOLS.

PAIL.

.Arrmgumn 2mm an. 26, mos.

leakage or injury.

JESSE W. Mon-oi PATEXT outs-acnor on oaeo, ILLINOIS.

PAIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 20, 1907.

Application filed January 26,1903. Serial No. 140,591.

To all whom it may concemf Be it known that 1, Jesse W. Nlcnois, acitizen of the United States, residing at Chicago,'in' the county ofCookand-State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Pails, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to sheet-metal pails or buckets, having referencemore particularly to the tin pails extensively used in packing lard,cottolene, and like products for retail distribution, although myinvention is capable of useful application to pails and buckets of otherkinds and for other purposes.

Most tin lard pails at present in use have soldered on their outersurface at diametrically-opposite points near the ,upper end of thepailbody a pair of hollow ears centrally apertured for the reception ofthe inwardly-turnedor hooked ends of the hail, the purpose thereof beingto preserve imperforate and intact the containing walls of the pailagainst leakage of the contents at the pointswhererthe bail is pivotedto the body, or the introduction of dirt and other objectionable foreignmatter at such points.

My invention has for its principal object to simplify and cheapen theconstruction of such pails through the provision of a novel constructionof pail-ear which dispenses entirely with the use of solder, at the sametime presenting a stronger construction and one equally efiicient inpreserving the contents of the pail from To this end my inventionconsists in a pail-body provided with a non-soldered bail-receiving earhaving the peculiarities of construction and form and conjunction ofparts substantially as hereinafter described and 'pointed out in theclaims.

In the accompanying drawings-I have illustrated a preferred embodimentof my invention, and referring theretoFigure 1.is a sideelevation of atin pail and adjacent to the ear; Fig. 3 is a transverse section on theline 3- 3 of Fig. 2; and Figs. 4 and 5 are-detail perspective views ofthe cooperating elements of my twothe disks of metal actually removed toform such openings being of smaller diameter than thediameter of thecompleted openings, wherebya certain annular portion of the metalimmediately surrounding the cut-out hole is punched and stampedinwardly, thereby forming a countersunk annular seat, indicated at a,and an inwardly-projecting flange shown at a; The earproper designed tobe seated in'and completely and tightly fill said opening is' a two-partear, composed of a pair of stamped sheet-metalmember's shown separatelyin detail at D and E in Figs. 4 and 5 respectively. The

member D is formed up'in the inverted hat-shape shown iroma fiatsheet-metal disk by-a suitable punch or die, and has a short cylindricalbody 11, closed by-a head d, and surrounded by a marginal flange d allofsaid parts of course being integral. The cylindrical body d is made of asize to tightly fit within the flange a, and the flange d is of a sizeto snugly fit the countersunk seat a, with the outer face of the flangejust flush .with the surrounding outer surface of the pail-body.

The member E is similarly shaped up from a circular disk of sheet-metalinto the form shown in Fig. 5,. whereby it has a short cylindrical bodye and an integral head 2, which latter has a central perforations of asize to admit the hooked end of the bail-C. The cylindrical body e ofthis member is of a diameter to .tightly telescope within thecylindrical body dof the member D.

In assembling the parts of the ear and seating the latter in the body ofthe pail, themembers D and E are .each other, thereby forming a hollowbody having a completely closed inner end, and the only opening to theinterior of which iirthe bail-hole e in the outer face thereof.This-hollow body thus formed is then driven into the countersunk andflanged circular opening in veniently formed by punch-pricking the innermargin of I dispensing with the use of solder, which is expensive andnot always reliable as a uniting agent; the fact that the parts of mypail-ear can be quickly and cheaply stamped and assembled, requiring nospecial tools'or' processes in their formation; the fact that the earthus applied lies almost wholly within the wall of the pail,

thus avoiding the unsightly appearance produced by.

ears which are merely attached to and'project outwardly from the outersurface of the pail; and the fact that the ear thus formed possessesgreat strength being inseparable from the pail-body by any ordinary oreven unusual strain on the bail. It will also be obvious that the earmay be seated so snugly in the flanged receiving aperture of the body asto be no less effective to prevent points formed through its side wallsand inwardly extending flanges surrounding said openings, in combinationwith two-part hail ears. each comprising a pair of interfittinginversely disposed stamped metal concave members, the outer of which hasa flange fitting the countersink of the opening and punch-prickedlocking lugs overlying the edge of the flange of the opening. and theinner of which has a central hole to receive the llflilllOOk,substantially as described. JESSE V. NICHOLS.

Witnesses SAMUEL N. Ioxo, FREDERXCK C. Goonu'tx.

